I just received my order of custom printed pen boxes from
www.gemsondisplay.com They have modified their old design to better fit pens. The older box was too long, made more for brackets than pens. Each box comes with two inserts. One for a single pen and another for two pens. The box is 6 5/8" x 2 1/4" x 1".
The minimum order is 200 with printing for a whole $1.07 each, with free shipping. The folks I worked with have been very professional and made adjustments to my logo to get the final printing to look great. I definitely recommend them.
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Cheers,
Danny
These look great. Thanks for the tip. I have been using these slide-top boxes:
https://factorydirectcraft.com/cata...vfXbZuz6mcllk9qKOgVnQG_lFHsPmK20aAtFHEALw_wcB. The price has gone up. I got 50 of them for a little over $1 each, and then I brand my logo into the top. I also include a velvet pouch to ensure that the pen won't get scratched from the wood:
In honesty, these look good on the website, but I was pretty disappointed with the quality. The tops do not fit neatly and the lines aren't always straight. I've worked up a design for a hinged box that I want to begin building, but that is too labor intensive to just give away with my cheaper pens. I could probably build them for around $3 in materials, using rough-sawn cherry and some simple barrel hinges. I'm thinking something like this (
https://www.pennstateind.com/store/PKBOXM1.html), except that I'm going to suede-tex the pen chamber. Making this myself will also give me the opportunity to brand my logo on the top, make a few decorative changes that better suit my taste, and then include a nicer finish. (I've bought a few of these boxes, and the thin film finish always feels a bit cheap to me.) I'll post some pictures and a tutorial on the jig I've built to help make these when I get the first one done. Haven't been getting as much shop time as I'd like these days...
These cardboard boxes might be a nice option for those cheaper pens in lieu of the slide-top box. I think it looks a bit classier and I like that I can include my logo. I can use my nicer, homemade boxes as the complementary box with the more expensive pens, and sell them as a $5-10 upgrade for the cheaper pens.